Forgiveness (2008)

Forgiveness is a story of the third generation after the Holocaust. Growing up in America, two busy professional women - Maria and Sarah - are brought together by fate and a diary that links their families. They struggle to understand what happened 60 years ago and find its meaning for their lives today.

Date of release
2008-04-26
Runtime
1h 24m
Genres
Drama
Director
Mariusz Kotowski

Casting

Interesting facts

Forgiveness, also known as Esther's Diary, is a 2008 American dramatic Holocaust film written and directed by Polish-American director Mariusz Kotowski, with a screenplay by Allan Knee. The film is marked as being the director's first feature-length film.

Background

The film's story is told through a series of narratives from a fictional memoir of the period, illustrated with archival footage provided by the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, Oświęcim, Poland, additional archive material from the Jewish Historical Institute, and photographs of the concentration camp ruins by Michael Kenna. Some of the film's archival footage comes from the same sources used in the French short film Night And Fog.

Forgiveness was shot on location in Austin, Texas in August 2007, with the director having to deal with seasonal rains and the illness of one of the lead actresses.

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